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An Independent Line By Peter Schrank, Tim Sanders and Dave Brown - Hardback, £19.99

From the fag-end of the Major years to New Labour’s smoking ban and beyond, this is a king-size pack of unfiltered satire from the political cartoonists of The Independent.

Clinton’s cigar, George Dubya striking a light under the Middle East, Blair’s pants on fire, the damp matchbox of Gordon’s premiership and an ashtray of other smouldering issues are the butts of their humour.

Drawing on the best of over 12 years of material, this book blows smoke in the face of our political masters, but will have you spluttering with mirth.

Perhaps it should come with a government warning…

LAUGHING CAN SERIOUSLY IMPROVE YOUR HEALTH!
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Artist of Wonderland The Life, Political Cartoons, and Illustrations of Tenniel By Frankie Morris - Hardback, £35.00
Best known today as the illustrator for Lewis Carroll's Alice books, John Tenniel was the Victorian era's chief political cartoonist. This extensively illustrated book is the first to draw almost exclusively on primary sources in family collections, public archives, and other depositories. Frankie Morris examines Tenniel's life and work, producing a book that is not only a definitive resource for scholars and collectors but one that can be easily enjoyed by everyone interested in Victorian life and art, social history, journalism and political cartoons, and illustrated books.
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Beano and The Dandy A Seventies Selection! By D C Thomson - Hardback, £12.00
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Beano and The Dandy A Seventies Selection! By D C Thomson - Hardback, £12.00
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Beano and The Dandy A Spin Round The Sixties By D C Thomson - Hardback, £10.00
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Beano and The Dandy Crazy About Creatures By D C Thomson - Hardback, £12.00
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Beano and The Dandy Favourites From The 40's By D C Thomson - Hardback, £10.00
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Beano and The Dandy Focus on The Fifties By D C Thomson - Hardback, £10.00
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Best of Matt 2002 By Matthew Pritchett - Soft Cover, £7.50
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Best of Matt 2003 By Matthew Pritchet - Soft Cover, £7.50
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Best of Matt 2006 By Matthew Pritchett - Soft Cover, £7.50
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Butterworth The Political Cartoons of George Butterworth 1938 - 1953 By Timothy S Benson - Hardback, £14.99

This book graphically illustrates the period 1938 to 1953 through the amusing and beautifully drawn cartoons of George Butterworth, almost all of which have not been seen since they were first published. Butterworth started his career as a sports cartoonist on the Stockport Advertiser and the Cheshire Daily Echo. When war was declared against Nazi Germany in September 1939, Butterworth took over as political cartoonist on the Manchester Daily Dispatch. Butterworth?s daily cartoons proved to be such a success that he soon came to the personal attention of both Hitler and Mussolini. After Germany had been defeated in May 1945, Butterworth prophetically turned his attentions to the threat Stalin, and the Soviet Union, posed to the Western Democracies. During this period, Butterworth also poured scorn on the new Labour Government led by Clement Attlee. The post-war years of austerity and financial crisis were all imaginatively used by Butterworth as ammunition for his daily cartoons.
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Churchill in Caricature By Timothy S Benson - Hardback, £15.00
From his first Cabinet appointment, as President of the Board of Trade in May 1908 through to his retirement as Prime Minister in April 1955, Sir Winston Churchill was taken to task by cartoonists at every available opportunity. Churchill in Caricature focuses exclusively on Sir Winston Churchill’s long and illustrious career though the eyes of the great cartoonists both at home and around the world. The book also includes Dr Tim Benson’s fully illustrated essay entitled ‘Low on Churchill’. This book is a must for anyone interested in the Greatest Briton of all time!
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Civil Rights Examing Issues through Political Cartoons By Mary Williams - Soft Cover, £15.00
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Did Cowards Flinch? A cartoon history of the Labour Party By Alan Mumford - Hardback, £19.99

This collection of cartoons covers the highlights - and the lowlights - of the History of the Labour Party. Introductory chapters review the context in which political cartoons appear, in terms of the ownership of newspapers and their attitude to the Labour Party. The relationship between cartoonists and the newspapers in which they appeared, and specifically their own political views are reviewed. Each stage in the evolution of the Labour Party is given an introduction in the text, followed by the cartoons for each period. In addition two chapters highlight major figures not otherwise emphasised in the text. This fascinating collection, including work by Low, Dyson, Vicky, Steve Bell and Peter Brookes, enables readers not only to see the changing depictions of issues and personalities, but also brings out common features in the changing focus of the Labour Party.
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Don’t lose it again! The life and war-time cartoons of Philip Zec By Donald Zec - Hardback, £12.99
Philip Zec is now widely regarded as the most important political cartoonist of World War Two. From 1939 to 1945 he produced 1529 cartoons for the Daily Mirror which caught brilliantly the defiance of the British people at war. Some of his finest drawings are reproduced in these pages. Two cartoons made history: the first, the notorious ‘seaman on the raft’ cartoon was astonishingly misinterpreted in Downing Street and led to a furious debate in Parliament: the second, a moving evocation of the folly of war gives the book its title and marks the sixtieth anniversary of VE Day on 8th of May. Written by the cartoonist'ss brother Donald, the award-wining journalist and author, Don’t Lose It Again hallmarks a unique talent which contributed significantly to the British war effort. This book is probably the most incisive biography of a political cartoonist since Sir David Low’s own autobiography 49 years ago
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Dr Seuss Goes To War The World War II Editorial Cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel By Richard Minear - Hardback, £30.00
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E H Shepard The Man who drew Pooh By Arthur Chandler - Hardback, £20.00
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Europe: Whats the big idea? By Paul Adamson - Soft Cover, £10.00
Cartoons on the theme of Europe by Andey Davey, Dave Brown, Peter Schrank, Morten Morland, Martyn Turner, Martin Rowson and others.
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Excelsior! The amazing life of Stan Lee By Stan Lee - Hardback, £25.00
Signed by the Cartoonist
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George IV A Life In Caricature By Kenneth Baker - Hardback, £20.00

This book presents over 200 cartoons lampooning the larger-than-life King George IV (r.1821-1830), combined with a text (in 19 chapters) by Kenneth Baker, who brings his own extensive political experience to his discussion of George. Baker sets George in the context of his personal and political life, and reveals his passion for collecting works of art and his interest in architecture and design. A final chapter discusses George's relations with the press.
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Gibbard's Double Decade Omnibus By Les Gibbard - Hardback, £20.00
SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
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Gillray's Legacy  By Cindy McCreery - Soft Cover, £6.00

James Gillray was neither restrained nor genteel with his art. He created grotesquely exaggerated caricatures of the rich and famous of his time. Some of the works in this book would not be printed today in a newspaper, and several others would draw angry letters to the editor. Cartoons by Gillray in this book are supplemented by reproductions of his work courtesy of the Library of Congress, Art Institute of Chicago, and Draper Hill. They represent two decades of his social and political satire. The idea that engravings were a form of entertainment is important in our understanding of the works in this book. Just like today, people in Georgian England enjoyed a good joke at the expense of politicians.
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Great British Comics By Paul Gravett - Hardback, £18.99
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Illingworth: Political cartoons from the Daily Mail 1939 - 1969 By Timothy S Benson - Hardback, £15.99

Leslie Gilbert Illingworth (1902 – 1979) was perhaps one of the last great practitioners of penmanship to take up political cartooning. This book is not only a biography of one of the twentieth century’s most important cartoonists, but also a visual and detailed chronicle of thirty years of history through roughly three hundred cartoons that were originally published in the Daily Mail. The book has over 300 cartoons in it, including Illingworth's most famous ones.
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Ken Sprague People's Artist By John Green - Soft Cover, £12.50

This fascinating and lively biography by John Green of the larger than life, all-round artist, Ken Sprague, demonstrates how everyone can be a special kind of artist – how art can transform lives, can be an expression of social engagement and celebration ofendeavour to make a better world possible build bridges. This is what has been said about Ken and the book:

"A celebration of the work and vision of Ken Sprague is to be welcomed – he, as much as anyone, deserves it." Tony Benn, politician and activist
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Lordly Cartoons A cartoon history of the House of Lords By Alan Mumford - Soft Cover, £15.00

Burke's Peerage is pleased to present a very different view of Lords and Ladies, through cartoons published over the last two hundred and fifty years. The cartoons lend an often-critical view of the personalities and events. The earliest cartoon, by William Hogarth, shows the last Lord to be hanged for treason because of his support for the Jacobite cause in 1745. A number of chapters cover the activities of the House of Lords and its reform, and many major personalities involved in political life. The Earl of Beaconsfield (Disraeli), Asquith, Lloyd George, the Earl of Stockton (Macmillan), Lord Home and Baroness Thatcher appear. Ladies have a chapter to themselves, including a trio of Liberals – Margot Asquith, Violet Bonham Carter, Megan Lloyd George – and their Liberal Democrat successor Shirley Williams. However it is not all politics – there are cartoons of personalities from sport (Cowdrey), military life (Kitchener), theatre (Olivier) and press (Beaverbrook). The most contentious cartoons relate to scandals in which Lords have been involved, and not just Lord Archer! There seem to have been fewer cartoons of a smaller number of scandals involving ladies! Different stages in the opening of stately homes at Longleat and Woburn are also in evidence.
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Low and the Dictators By Timothy S Benson - Hardback, £17.99
Sir David Low (1891 – 1963) is considered the greatest political cartoonist in newspaper history. Low not only influenced his contemporaries, but also the generations of cartoonists that followed him. This book, featuring ALL NEW Low material, covers the rise and fall of the Dictators Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. Also included are cartoons that were refused publication or were altered by the Evening Standard editor after pressure from the Chamberlain Government, which considered Low’s work during the late 1930s as damaging to Anglo-German relations. Low’s contentious cartoon strips ‘Hit and Muss’ and ‘Muzzler’, which appeared weekly in his Saturday full-page Topical Budget cartoon, are also reproduced in this book in their entirety.
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Low: The Twentieth Century's Greatest Cartoonist By BBC History Magazine and Political Cartoon Society - Soft Cover, £25.00

The cartoonist David Low (1891-1963) chronicled and commented on many of the great events of the 20th century. Loved and loathed by his audience and his subjects alike, adored by Churchill and banned by the Nazis, Low captured the absurdity and heroism of British social and political life. This book, a catalogue of the exhibition in Westminster Hall, brings together his most unforgettable cartoons and caricatures, as well as an assessment of his art and historic importance.
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My Vision For a New You By Steve Bell - Hardback, £12.99
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Picture Politics Francis Carruthers Gould 1844 - 1925 By Lois Lamplugh - Soft Cover, £12.99
Francis Carruthers Gould began to contribute a weekly topical cartoon to the Pall Mall Budget. he also worked fo rthe Pall Mall Gazette and in 1893 became the first regular daily cartoonist employed by a newspaper when he moved to the Westminster Gazette, where he became assistant editor. He also edited a monthly magazine, Picture Politics.
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Rogues' Gallery By Dave Brown - Hardback, £22.99

What exactly was the joke in Leonardo’s famous cartoon, and why is the Laughing Cavalier so amused? These are just two of the mysteries that this book fails to solve. However what you will discover in Dave Brown’s reinterpretation of the Old Masters is a series of wickedly funny satires. Here he employs his inimitable draughtsmanship to stunning purpose, poking a paintbrush in the eye of our political leaders, and twisting the palette knife to rib-tickling effect. The Rogues’ Gallery series has appeared in The Independent since January 2004, and this book is a selection of the best of over three years of cartoons. The book is fully illustrated in colour and includes the original paintings that go alongside Brown’s cartoons throughout the book.
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Rogues' Gallery: More Misused Masterpieces By Dave Brown - Hardback, £22.99

Would the Recession have riled Rembrandt, or the Bailout bewildered Blake? Would a modern Michelangelo still have faith in Creationism? Dave Brown again channels the spirits of the Old Masters as they guide his paintbrush across the broad canvas of 21s century politics. Through the medium of cartoon Goya gets to grips with Gordon while Van Gogh hurls his old shoes at George Dubya. In this second collection from his long running series in The Independent, Dave saves for the nation 76 Masterpieces, in full colour, of the satirist s art, including Diana and Actaeon, and all for less than one two millionth of the cost of Titian s original. Rogues Gallery II may possibly send Stubbs and Seurat spinning in their graves, but hopefully it will simply leave the reader rolling with laughter.
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Scarfe Drawing Blood By Gerald Scarfe - Hardback, £45.00
Signed by the cartoonist and wrapped in cellaphane.
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Shooting the Witness The Cartoons of Naji Al-Ali By Hani Haddad - Soft Cover, £5.00
Naji Al-Ali was one of the most prominent cartoonists in the Arab world until he was shot dead in London in 1987. Sarcastic, poignant and perhaps too bold, Al-Ali’s cartoons were drawn from his experience as a Palestinian refugee since childhood and clearly reflected his political stance. This book which was produced for an exhibition of Al-Ali’s original cartoons at the Political Cartoon Gallery in 2008 features the very best of his work.
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Strube: The World’s Most Popular Cartoonist By Timothy S Benson - Hardback, £16.99

This first biography on the life of Sidney Strube not only offers a cartoon journey through 20th Century British History, but also an insight into the world of editorial cartooning during its heyday. Strube was the editorial cartoonist of the Daily Express between 1912 and 1948. During these years, he assisted in making the Daily Express the best selling national newspaper in the world. In 1915, Strube enlisted in the Artists Rifles Battalion and served on the Western Front alongside other artists and writers such as Paul Nash and Wilfred Owen. Strube’s greatest creation was the ‘Little Man’, a figure large sections of the population then identified with. During the 1930s, Strube’s ridiculing of Hitler and Mussolini led the Daily Express to being banned in Germany and Italy. Strube’s name, alongside many other prominent critics of Hitler’s regime, was discovered on a Nazi hit list after the war. The book is packed with not only many of Strube’s most famous cartoons, but also photographs and cartoon related images that have never been published before.
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Suezcide A cartoon history of the Suez Crisis 1956 By Anthony Gorst and Timothy Benson - Hardback, £19.99
On 26 July 1956, Nasser announced the nationalisation of the Suez Canal Company. This created an international diplomatic crisis that culminated in a disastrous military adventure by Britain and France in association with Israel. It ended in a humiliating ceasefire in response to widespread international condemnation. The damage to Britain’s international standing was reflected at home by the resignation of Anthony Eden. Such dramatic events were reflected with in the British political press not only on the news and editorial pages but also through the work of cartoonists. This book documents the history of the Suez Crisis through cartoons from the UK and around the world.
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The Best of Heath Robinson By William Heath Robinson - Hardback, £25.00
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The Best of This Life 2005- 2006 From Metro and the Mail on Sunday By Rick Brookes - Soft Cover, £6.00
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The Cartoon Century SIGNED BY AUTHOR By Timothy S Benson - Hardback, £15.00

Cartoons have the astonishing power to encapsulate a historical moment or popular mood, and this magnificent new survey tells the story of modern Britain through hundreds of the finest examples. Year by year, from the death of Queen Victoria to the downfall of Saddam Hussein, it shows the views taken by the nation’s leading cartoonists of the issues and personalities that dominated the news – some of worldwide significance (the outbreak of the Second World War, for example), some of major social and political importance (for instance, the rise of the Suffragettes), some reflecting more parochial obsessions (as, for example, the Edwardian cartoon bemoaning the presence of foreign players in English football teams). Some show a nation united (the outbreak of the First World War); more often they reveal where battlelines have been drawn, whether they’re cartoons supporting or attacking appeasement, trade unions, the EU or contraception, or seeking to praise or bury Winston Churchill, Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair or the Archbishop of Canterbury. Many have achieved iconic status (David Low’s savage attacks on Hitler; Steve Bell’s portrayal of John Major with his pants over his trousers), but the majority of the cartoons shown here have not seen the light of day since they were first published, or were rejected or censored by contemporary newspapers. Together, they offer fascinating and revealing snapshot views of Britain over the course of a tumultuous century.
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To The Kwai - And Back By Ronald Searle - Hardback, £25.00
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Tory Blues A cartoon history of the Conservative Party By Alan Mumford - Hardback, £19.99

This book charts the history of the Conservative Party through political cartoons from Benjamin Disraeli to David Cameron. Chapters presenting cartoons chronologically are supported by summaries of political history including work by Tenniel, Carruthers Gould, Low, Vicky, Cummings, Bell Brookes and Garland amongst many others. The first chapter reviews the changing style and the possible impact of cartoons and the relationship between cartoonists and press barons especially Lords Beaverbrook and Rothermere in the 1930s. Wholly new insights appear which review the use of cartoons in biography and autobiography, and in addition ten former Conservative Ministers give their view on cartoons.

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